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Definition of droll in US English:

droll

adjective

‘No matter how serious the topics, there will always be instances when it's impossible not to smile, so droll are the minimalist observations and asides.’

‘No, I didn't do the chicken dance or anything so droll.’

‘Many of the show's laughs derive from Lee's droll determination to take the ditty literally: how can an owl play a small guitar?’

‘The whole scenario is rather droll at this point.’

‘The running commentary is informative and amusingly droll.’

‘Of course, the jokes are all on backwoods Southerners, so if that isn't an amusing subject to you, don't pick up this droll satire.’

‘The duke was characteristically droll about his political career.’

‘They were as droll as when I saw them back in February.’

‘They're droll, yet morbid, featuring amusing little colorful happy people behaving with perfect presence of mind as their 747 ditches into the Atlantic.’

‘He made the tasting far less arduous than his younger, more dashing, but decidedly less droll counterpart who was running the show this time around.’

‘The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll.’

‘Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.’

‘But just as often, the movie is droll, filled with pithy, hardboiled comebacks.’

‘Ferguson was sympathetic enough about his stricken team-mate, but could not resist a bit of droll humour.’

‘The tabloids did their thing, were quite droll about it.’

‘The use of old cut-out photographs of the main protagonists, against backcloths, is a neat stylistic device and Evans' narration is droll and knowing.’

‘He's rather droll when he frames his request, but it's a sincere one.’

‘Perhaps, I think, he just went out on one of his famous walks, walks that I shared for many droll miles.’

‘Surely the man who dispatched such droll rejection slips to thousands of chagrined writers should not be too dismayed to find himself paid back in kind-albeit with, as editors are wont to say, sincere regrets.’

‘If you're looking for a nice enough, quirky and droll adventure film that you won't remember on Monday, then here's your movie.’